After a month spent living in an old mill in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort in the south of France consuming the day with songwriting, river swimming, and embracing a phone-and-internet free reality, Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley emerged with Hippo Lite, their second record as Drinks out April 20th via Drag City. Isolated from everything but the purest forms of entertainment, sustenance, and inspiration regeneration, the duo's creative entanglement led to their most true and authentically transparent collection of songs showing the hermetic intricacies and orphic foibles of their nonlinear domain.